The New Partnership Between Rock Products and Burgex Brings Powerful New Tools to Aggregates Producers. For 20 years, the Aggregates Atlas has been one of the industry’s leading information sources. Featuring maps and listings, readers were able to see the location of aggregates operations throughout the United States. But the print version of the Atlas had its limitations. In metropolitan areas…
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Reshaping the Future
Innovative Designs And Strategies Will Benefit Quarry Operations Around The World. By Toni Allen Without technology, there’s no mining. Ever since the most primitive forms of rock extraction with sticks and picks, innovative tools have continuously reshaped the way we gather and produce minerals and metals. As with any industry that focuses on natural resource extraction, increased awareness of the…
Read MoreStockpile Reports Asks: Are You Still Clicking Piles Manually?
Tired of searching for piles in GIS data? With Stockpile Reports, the company knows where your stockpiles are, no clicking required.
Read MorePhilippi-Hagenbuch Engineers Rear-Eject Bodies for Largest Articulated Haul Truck
Philippi-Hagenbuch Inc. has expanded its rear-eject engineering capabilities to include the largest articulated haul truck on the market, the Volvo A60H. These trucks feature a body volume of 43.9 cu. yd. with a 2:1 heap ratio, making these rear ejects 50% larger than the most common rear eject bodies available.
Read MoreBo Doll Joins Durex as Regional Sales Manager
Durex Products Inc. hired Bo Doll as a regional sales manager covering the south-central United States. Based in Dallas, Doll will work with the company’s south-central dealers — including Excel Machinery LTD; Harman & Associates, Inc.; and Construction & Aggregate Products (CAP) — to generate new business and maintain the current customer base. Following his father Bob Doll’s footsteps, Bo Doll…
Read MoreCRH Touts Good Start to the Year
CRH plc, the global building materials group, issued a Trading Update for the first quarter, noting: Positive start to the year, good underlying demand; First-quarter sales, EBITDA and margin ahead. Integrated solutions strategy continuing to deliver across all divisions. Year-to-date acquisition spend $0.6 billion; strong pipeline of opportunities. Albert Manifold, chief executive, said, “The continued delivery of our solutions strategy resulted…
Read MoreMSHA Releases Report on Jan. 28 Fatality
The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) reported that on Jan. 28, while driving downhill, the 56-year-old driver of a concrete mixer truck at Freeport-McMoRan Morenci Inc., Greenlee County, Ariz., was fatally injured after he lost control of the truck. The truck overturned and the driver was ejected from the truck. Another miner, who was in the truck, was also…
Read MoreCompany Seeks to Grow Cement
By Mark S. Kuhar The only company in the world using biology to commercially produce cement, Biomason, employs natural microorganisms to grow biocement in ambient temperatures without emitting carbon dioxide. Yes, you heard that right. Laboratory grown cement. Its patented biocement technology mimics nature’s use of carbon as a building block, creating cement in a biological, circular system, rather than…
Read MoreTelling MSHA To Get Lost
What Not To Do; And What Happens If You Do Just That. By Brian Hendrix Denial of entry. You don’t need an attorney to tell you that you never want to see those words in an MSHA citation or order that MSHA has issued to you. You definitely do not want to see those words in a complaint against you…
Read MorePraise and Blame
We Need To Establish Parameters For Behavior If We Are Going To Live And Work Together. By Thomas J. Roach Ancient Greeks believed there should be an ongoing public dialogue of praise and blame; it was called epideictic discourse. It would benefit all of us as citizens and as workers and managers if we learned and practiced this almost lost…
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